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# Relighting

> Tutorial 6: one plate relit from the preset pictures or your own words, a relight saved for every show, a whole sequence under another light, and how to keep a relight from adding things.

> **[Watch tutorial 6 on YouTube](https://youtu.be/3yJV5l4zRVI)**
>
> Relighting: the same places, under another light.

A relight is an edit of a picture that changes its light and keeps everything else: the
window seat at dusk, in snow, by candlelight. One plate at a time, or every plate of a
sequence at once, and then the shots re-rendered on the same seeds so only the light
differs.

**You need:** an edit model for pictures (FLUX.2 Klein edit, Qwen-Image 2.1, FLUX.3
Klein, Fibo 2.0...). This continues on the Dean episode.

## 1. One plate, relit

**1. Open the edit window**

**Refs** → the **window\_seat** location → **Edit live…** (or **Edit** on a candidate).

**2. Pick a relight**

The **Relight** row above the instruction shows the presets as pictures, each the same
sample place under that light: time of day (dawn to night), weather (overcast, rain, fog,
snow, storm) and light (neon, moonlight, streetlights, firelight, sunbeams...). Click one:
it fills the instruction, which stays yours to edit.

**3. Read the instruction, then queue it**

Read the words before you run them (see part 3), then press **Queue Edit**.

**4. Compare**

Each relight is a new candidate; the original stays. Compare them side by side, and press
**Pick** on the one to use.

## 2. A relight of your own

**1. Write the light yourself**

In the same edit window, type your own instruction:

```
warm candlelight from a single candle on the windowsill, deep amber glow, the rest of the room in soft shadow
```

**2. Save as a relight…**

Press **Save as a relight…** under the Relight row and name it (*candlelight*). It's
offered under **Yours** in every show on this machine, in the edit window and on a
sequence's Relight…. **✕** on its tile removes it.

**3. Give it a picture (optional)**

Until it has one, its tile shows its words. On an edited take, **save as a relight…**
beside its instruction keeps it with that take's picture as its tile.

## 3. When a relight adds things

A relight names where its light comes from, and the edit model can draw in what it names.
*Firelight* that mentions candles and a brazier gets candles; *dusk* with "the street lamps
lit" in a room with no street gets a street drawn outside; snow that "lies on every surface"
lies on the cushions indoors.

**1. Read what it says**

Before **Queue Edit**, read the instruction against the picture. Does it name a lamp, a
window, a fire, a street the picture hasn't got?

**2. Cut the word, don't add a no**

Delete what isn't there. Don't add *no lamps*: that puts the word in all the same.

**3. Say what's outside and what isn't**

For weather, say where it is: *snow is falling outside the window, the yard and the tree
covered in snow*, not *snow on every surface*.

**4. Compare with the original**

Side by side, look for anything new besides the light.

## 4. A whole sequence under another light

For a flashback, a dream or a night version: every plate a sequence uses, relit at once.

**1. Relight… on the sequence**

**Shots** → the sequence's header (sq01) → **Relight…**.

**2. Pick the light**

Pick a relight picture (**Snow**, **Dusk**, one of **Yours**) or say it in your own words.
The dialog lists what it will make before you start.

**3. Point the sequence at the relit plates**

Leave **Point sq01 at the relit plates** on: it rewrites the sequence's location and its
shots' `plate:` lines so the next render uses the new plates (the script keeps a history
copy). Press **Relight**.

**4. Pick the new plates**

Each plate becomes a new location (`window_seat_dusk`), made from the plate itself, so the
old one is still there. Pick the takes in Refs as usual.

**5. Re-render the sequence**

On the sequence's header, **Re-render…**: every shot again as a new take, with the same
seeds, so only the light has changed. Your old takes stay.

> [!TIP]
>
> To go back, point the sequence's header and `plate:` lines at the original location in the
> Script window, Save, and re-render. Both versions of each shot stay among its takes.

## Next

> **[7 · The look builder](https://docs.seriesmith.com/tutorials/look-builder.md)**
>
> Not one place: the whole series, another look.

> **[The editor: making references](https://docs.seriesmith.com/editor.md#making-references)**
>
> Relight, Save as a relight and Relight… in detail.


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